Learning Styles

A] Visual learner likes:

• Seeing teachers body language and facial expressions
• Pictures, illustrations and diagrams
• Posters
• Cartoons
• Collages
• Slide shows
• TV Shows
• Films and Videos
• Flowcharts
• colouring books
• Graphs and charts
• maps
• Flash cards
• Underlining and highlighting

B] Auditory learners likes:

• Listening, speaking, explaining, describing, debates, show and tell
• Discussions with Teachers and Peers
• Musical performances, raps, songs oral presentations, demonstrations, Poems
• Verbal games
• Tape recordings
• Attending classes, tutorials discussions

C] Kinaesthetic learner likes:

• Listening, speaking, explaining, describing, debates, show and tell
• Discussions with Teachers and Peers
• Musical performances, raps, songs oral presentations, demonstrations, Poems
• Verbal games
• Tape recordings
• Attending classes, tutorials discussion

Web 2.0 Tools

Internet Research:

• Library Databases. http://www.sd35.bc.ca/district/library/default.aspx?ID=34
• News from Around the World. http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash/

Podcasts

• TED. Here you will find the best talks and performances from the TED conference available to the public, for free
  www.ted.com/talks
• EPN. Education Podcast Network - a comprehensive resource for educational podcasts. Listen and learn!
  http://epnweb.org/

Audio Books

• Librivox.org is a very cool site. Here a group of dedicated volunteers create audio books out of public domian owrks there are 12,000+ books. These can be download as MP3 (lo and Hi quality) and Ogg formats
  http://librivox.org

Word Tools

• Visual Dictionary: online graphical dictionary — Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. http://www.visuwords.com/
• Big Huge Thesaurus. This has a great rhyming feature generator. http://words.bighugelabs.com/
• Wacky Web Tales. An online equivalent to Mad-Libs.
  http://www.educationplace.biz/tales
• Wordle. This is a tool for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source texthttp://www.wordle.net/

Creation Tools:

• Blabberize
  http://blabberize.com/make
• Build Yourself Wild. Create interesting profile pictures!
  http://www.buildyourwildself.com/
• Hero Factory. Create your own hero.
  http://cpbintegrated.com/theherofactory/
• Kerpoof. A multimedia software is used by kids worldwide to create original artwork, animated movies, stories, greeting cards and more
  http://www.kerpoof.com/
• Mr. Picassohead. Create and share your own face designs
  http://www.mrpicassohead.com/create.html

Functional Tool:

• Screen Name Generator. For creating interesting & unique screen names.
  http://www.spinxo.com/

• Online Bullying. http://www2.sd35.bc.ca/saverill/OnlineBullying/Home.html
• Common Craft. http://www.commoncraft.com/